throw a fit
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Did you know our Sun can throw a fit - just like a toddler high on sugar?
From Space Scoop • Nov. 19, 2025
Some parkgoers, of course, might throw a fit over the potential for beavers to dam up waterways.
From Slate • Aug. 31, 2023
Maybe Rachel Berry would throw a fit if her performance was ineligible for a Tony Award, but present-day Lea Michele insists that she isn’t bothered.
From New York Times • Sep. 1, 2022
This woman said she had hosted a thousand dinner parties over the years, and now — in her 70s — she was over it, but when she said so, her husband would "throw a fit."
From Washington Post • Jul. 4, 2021
“Jumper’s liable to throw a fit with that hide rattling along behind him, and you might not can hold him by yourself.”
From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson
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